Alright, Mod 25 has messaged Deus regarding the debate between me and SplashKay, the debate will include the following;

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To confirm, the debate will be regarding evolution, where you will present points against it, and I will use the best of my knowledge to rebuttle your points. It would also be nice if you had an alternative theory, which I could make points against, and we could discuss.

"I read this at this link, disprove it!" (you do the heavy lifting and take it apart, then Splash simply tracks down another website reinforcing his/her ignorant inculcated fantasy and repeats without ever facing the truth).

Owing to a number of external commitments and pressures at the present time, I've asked Admin 1 and Moderator_A25 to seek another moderator for the Debate Forums, as I do not feel that I am able to devote the time and energy to moderating formal debates that the participants should expect and deserve. I hope this does not unduly delay the proceedings, and offer my apologies to those affected.

I'd like to offer my apologies in particular to those who had to wait for some time for a reply to my PMs owing to prolonged absences - and wish the best of luck to all who participate in future debates.

I've invited the forum to argue any point with me one on one.I've got a list of seven, and it's probably going to grow, so could I please get a mod for this?

Ta.

SplashKay,

Please name your opponent and your topic. As I find applying pronouns to you to be awkward, please also provide your gender.

You may debate in any format you choose, however if it becomes an unruly mess I will descend upon your thead like a legion of pissed seraphim and its end will be swift and terrible. I strongly recommend you (plural) agree to a narrow scope, and a limited number of posts. For example:

A - PointB - ReplyB - CounterpointA - Reply

B - Reply to the reply

A - SummationB - Summation

Extra reading material for you on the topic of limited posts, by my esteemed predecessor, whose enormous shoes I can only hope to fill: Deus ex Machina

I intend to stay out of the fray as much as possible and enter only if I am summoned or if I find an egregious problem. Fair enough?

Real quick (and hopefully this won't merit a response and the mods won't have to relocate us)

Ooo, a post too far. Actually, I was going to break this up two posts ago.

This is an interesting conversation but not one to be had in this thread. I do not want to kill it, so I have opened a debate/discussion thread and commentary thread in Discussion room 1. I encourage you to use them.

Right now the discussion is limited to BibleStudent and University Pastor, but if they both agree, Timo - or anyone else they mutually agree to - may join. But please let me know.

"This House Believes that the innate capacity for understanding of right and wrong indicates a moral law-giver."

After participating briefly in a thread that is now in the Bottomless Pit (abandon all hope ye who enter here) I suggested in there that a better format for such a discussion might be a formal-ish debate, with post limits and word count limits.

Thus, my proposal:

We debate the question "Is the basis for morality natural or supernatural?" (Which seems to be where the thread is going, away from "are morals objective?") To put in the format of a debate, it would be

"This house believes that the basis for morality is not natural, but supernatural"

The format I'd suggest would be: (word counts adapted from times here)[1]

That site mentions cross-x, which I skipped because I felt it would be hard to wedge that into an internet forum like this one. If others have a good idea of how to handle that, I'd be more than happy to include it if desired.

Once you settle on a topic I will need to know the format. Will it be formal? If so, how many rebuttals? Whom will go first? This is important. I see the lack of agreement on format (or following anything they had agreed to) as the main reason for the failure of the debate between BibleStudent and UniversityPastor. So please get the rules down now.